Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui
Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui (* 1940 in Remscheid ) is emeritus professor of German literature at the University of Saint -Etienne (France) and essayist.
Life
Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui comes from a business family in Remscheid. After the start of the study (philosophy, history, German ) in Cologne, before moving to West Berlin. After a disease-related dropout she could after her recovery " for some time to realize cherished desire to leave Adenauer Germany ".
She continued her studies in Paris with French literature and German studies and completed her license at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Montpellier from.
It was not possible for her to take the Agrégation required for a university lecturer ( one required in France competition testing), because despite their conformity with the formal inclusion criteria for naturalization denied the French authorities. This was due to their research- related close contacts with writers and writers in the GDR.
It was a matter to the University of Lyon in order there to make a dissertation on the poet Peter Hacks and earned doctoral degrees.
The naturalization she was but then took off and the Agrégation.
After receiving tenure, she was an academic teaching continues to refuse, since their main theses were not accepted to German literature. In particular, distrusted their argument, Peter Hacks is not an East German dissident, but a socialist classic, which the GDR total affirm and support. Finally, she got a position as Maître de Conférences at the University of Saint -Etienne.
She now lives in Montpellier, along with her husband, the Spanish biochemist Juan Jauregui - Adell, the research at the CNRS there.
Work
Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui works mainly in essay form. She has the reputation of France in a designated expert on the German and especially the literature of the GDR. She held in her publications never to academic rules. My main interest was the representatives of classical literature in Germany, especially Goethe, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht.
In 1986, she received the Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts in East Berlin.
Friendship with Peter Hacks
Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui saw in the East German playwright Peter Hacks the legitimate heirs of German classicism and the descendants of Goethe, Hegel, and Heine. His work she devoted her dissertation and several essays. From 1975, she visited him regularly in person and used to hacks ' death in 2003, a continuous correspondence.
Works of Heinrich Heine
A significant portion of essays by Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui deals with the work of Heinrich Heine. In 2009 she presented after intense literary-historical research a biographical novel about the life and work of the writer Elise Krinitz ago, the last loved Heine called " Mouche ".
Publications
- Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui: Between the chairs. The poet Peter Hacks. Eulenspiegel, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-359-01657-2.
- Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui: Dichterliebe. Life and work of the last lover of Heinrich Heine, " Mouche ". VAT publisher André Thiele, Mainz 2009, ISBN 978-3-940884-02-2.